It's also amazing at how well the Republicans have spun the best interests of big business and our 1% as being the patriotic thing to do, playing on emotions and fear to motivate the base.Anyway, Romney certainly demonstrated very clearly his position and attitude in front of those who paid more than most of those 47% make in a year for dinner just to be in the room with him.

I know this was the first meeting and repeat attendees can plan next time to eat dinner before, etc.

If I am always wondering if my Client will use another Realtor, he/she will never be my first call, will never get me to cancel dinner with my family to show that new listing, will never get me to search outside the MLS, will never get me to spend any real time on you, the risk is too high.For my loyal Clients........I will cancel dinner, Christmas, my birthday, or whatever, to get them what they need.

I have had dinner with him and his wife a few times over the years.There are a number of investors who do Lonnie deals in ID and the neighboring states.There will be a Saturday meeting over by SeaTac airport (Seattle/Tacoma airport fro those not in the PacNW) in a couple of months.

I had a nice dinner that night...

It needed a ton of work and he priced out everything for me (I owe him dinner since my bid was not accepted).

Like what beach do you walk on and what type of puppies do you like and if you like candle lit dinners?

With all that said... yes it can be a risk... but so is driving to go out to dinner, there are some nuts out on the road!

I'll share my approach here...it worked really really well...I made good friends with one of the guys at the local REIA and my wife went over to eat dinner with he and his wife (you can see where this is going hopefully).

Now this was the first time that I, at 19 years old, had ever given thought to getting in the real estate game, but I was told it was a free dinner and presentation and there would be other investors there he wanted me to meet.So I figured, "what the hell?".